• In Ohio, the Wooster City School District is collaborating with the Wooster Police Department to place its officers on district school buses. The goal of the new policy is to provide personal, positive interactions with students and enhance the safety/security of school buses.
• In Tennessee, officials in the Germantown Municipal School District are implementing a canine program at the Houston High School. Dogs trained to sniff for drugs, pills, alcohol, and firearms will do random, unannounced inspections at the school.
• In Texas, the Round Rock Independent School District, after failing to negotiate a renewal of its agreement with the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, is creating its own police force. The sheriff’s reluctance to renew with the school district was the fear that recruiting and training officers for the job would be time-consuming and would strain county staff, particularly if other county school districts began seeking similar agreements for school resource officers.
• In Florida, a statewide grand jury has issued a report painting a dire picture of how Florida school districts are implementing security measures passed in response to the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The grand jury concluded that “any law the Legislature writes addressing school safety, statistical reporting or harm mitigation is meaningless unless someone is given a mandate to ensure compliance.”